Cursed Bread by Sophie Mackintosh
Published 2023 · 63,800 words · about 5 hours at an average pace
How hard is Cursed Bread to read?
Cursed Bread scores 60 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it quite demanding. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
- Vocabulary: 52 out of 100
- Precise, cool vocabulary.
- Sentence structure: 55 out of 100
- Short, controlled sentences.
- Abstraction: 58 out of 100
- Concrete village poisoning carrying an argument about appetite.
- Information density: 50 out of 100
- Light on event.
- Narrative indirection: 72 out of 100
- A narrator confessing to something she will not name.
- Symbolic density: 62 out of 100
- The bread and the hunger are the argument.
- Ironic distance: 55 out of 100
- Distance between Elodie's account and her part in it.
- Resolution withholding: 72 out of 100
- What happened is deliberately never settled.
- Structural complexity: 50 out of 100
- A retrospective with inserted letters.
How Cursed Bread is regarded
Cursed Bread holds a literary regard score of 35 out of 100, weighing its place in the canon, its critical reception, its influence on other writers, and the standing of its author. Regard is measured separately from difficulty: a demanding book is not necessarily an admired one.